We have increased the speed of several key locations on Vancouver Island and the Gulfs during the week of May 17, 2009:

Ganges: With much excitement our speed has been increased 5x to 10 mbp. This is the fastest Wifi in our Canadian network.

Port McNeil: Speed increased to 3 mbps/ 2 new antennas installed

Townsite Marina(Nanaimo): Speed increased to 10 mbps/ new antenna installed to improve coverage under the sheds

Speed Test our Network:Check out the speed of our network. If you get less than 2 mbps, then take a screen shot and e-mail them to me at kk@bbxpress.net.

Here is the link: www.speedtest.net or click on the image below. It is a great tool that shows download, upload and latency. Latency is very important for applications such as gaming and voice over internet. My i phone get absolutely brutal upload of up to 500 ms so forget about voip- but it's very handy.

Here's what it looks like: 

Poulsbo: We have added 2 new antennas to improve service to the boatsheds at the back of the Poulsbo marina.  Both of these new antennas are on the Poulsbo Yacht Club Building - one aims at the rear of the Port of Poulsbo marina (new red zone) to cover the blind spot.   The second antenna (green zone) now points directly at Liberty Bay Marina. These new broadcast antennas are high priced and high quality to improve coverage. We are now working with the isp to increase the speed at this location to 5 mbps versus the 1.5 mbps that now exists.

Pleasant Harbor:We have added an antenna on the dock to improve coverage and get under the boat houses. We are also increasing available speed to 3 mbps from 1.5 mbps.

Coal Harbour: We have added and antenna on "A" dock to triple the coverage. There were a few dead spots so we hope this will once and for all create a bullet proof location.

Blaine: There has been some very valid complaints at Blaine regarding reliability. This location is on a very reliable fiber backbone with the highest bandwidth possible up to 10 mpbs. We have installed a new radio and new broadcast location: May 8, 2009

Semiahmoo Marina: We have installed a new antenna and raised it for much better performance: May 9, 2009